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It is a native of the Levant, where it grows single, but has been ren- 

 dered double by cultivation. 



The varieties are very numerous: in the single sorts, the Watchet 

 or Pale Blue; the Common Purple; the Scarlet, and many interme- 

 diate varieties. In the double kinds, the Common Double Red and 

 Scarlet; the Parti-coloured Crimson; the Crimson Velvet; the'Great 

 Double Blush; the White; the Lesser Blush; the Purple; the Blue; 

 the Rose-coloured; the Carnation; the Purple Velvet; the Purple 

 Velvet of three colours; the Double Brimstone; the Green, &c. 



In the second sort the stems rise to the same height. According 

 to Haller, the root-leaves are of two kinds; one very deeply gashed, 

 so that they have the appearance of being five-fingered, but are in 

 reality three-parted, the side-lobes being two-parted to the very base; 

 all the lobes are narrow and sharp: the side ones deeply bifid, the 

 middle ones trifid or quadrifid, the extreme ones sharply lanceolate: 

 the other kind broad, deeply three-lobed, blunt, bluntly and shortly 

 serrate at the tip, with an awn standing out. The leaf on the stem, 

 or involucre, is ternate, the leaflets ovate-lanceolate. The peduncle 

 is solitary and one-flowered, as in the first: the petals three times 

 three (in the natural single flowers,) long, elliptic, marked with lines, 

 the outer ones subhirsute on the outside, white at the base with green 

 lines. The roots in this as well as the first consist of small tubers. 



There are several varieties of this both with single and double 

 flowers: the single and double Yellow: the Purple Starre Anemone, 

 darker and paler; Violet Purple; Purple striped; Carnation; Grede- 

 line, between a peach-colour and a violet; Cochenille, of a fine red- 

 dish violet or purple; Cardinal, of a rich crimson red; Bloud-red, of 

 a deeper, but not so lively a red; Crimson; Stamell, near unto a 

 scarlet; Incarnadine, of a fine delayed red or flesh-colour; Spanish 

 Incarnate, of a lively flesh-colour, shadowed with yellow; Blush, of 

 a fair whitish red; Nutmegge, of a dark whitish colour, striped with 

 veins of a blush-colour; Monk's-gray, pale whitish tending to a gray; 

 Great Orengc Tawnie; Lesser Orenge Tawnie: in the double, the 

 great double Anemone of Constantinople, or Spanish Marigold; great 

 double Orenge Tawnie; double Anemone of Cyprus;, double Persian 



